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City War

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })City War is a 1988 Hong Kong crime drama and Buddy Cop film starring Chow Yun-fat and Ti Lung. Released a year after the second A Better Tomorrow film, the two actors had somewhat of a role reversal this time, where Ti Lung is the hot-tempered, loose cannon cop, while Chow is his calm, level-headed partner.Ken (Ti Lung) and Dick (Chow Yun Fat) are police detectives and partners whom have worked as a team for over a decade. Despite their differences in personalities where Ken is the trigger-happy hothead and Dick being the patient one, they remain close friends where Dick is regularly invited to Ken's home and dine with his family. Dick, still a bachelor, also had a crush on local nightclub singer Penny, which ends up being problematic because Penny's current boyfriend is none other than Ted (Norman Chu, former Shaw Brothers veteran actor), a drug dealer and weapons smuggler which Ken and Dick arrested and put in prison a decade ago. With Ted released from prison and now working for a mainland Chinese gunrunning triad, both Ken and Dick are now marked for death.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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 Abandoned Warehouse: Close enough, the final shootout takes place in an abandoned bus depot.
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 Almost Dead Guy: Dick, in the end of the movie, having been shot multiple times by Ted's goons. The epilogue reveals that he survived however, despite seemingly succumbing to his injuries as the credits roll.
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 Big Damn Heroes: The climax had Dick being cornered by mooks in the bottom of a bus, with mooks firing their guns at him from all directions. It seems like Dick is done for, but then Ken arrives with a shotgun and starts blasting away the remaining mooks left and right.
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 An Ax To Grind: In the climax, Ted attempts to kill Ken with a fire ax. He failed, only to have Ken snatch the weapon from him, and later Ken uses the same weapon to crack the Russian gun dealer's skull.
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 Accidental Murder: Ted in the final shootout, trying to fire on Dick, only for Penny to step in the way and gets riddled with bullets meant for Dick.
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